RE: America's Friends & Enemies

Al,

Your first link shows, to me, the good news and the bad news.  The map is
the good news.  It shows many Arab countries lining up against Afghanistan.


The list of weaponry, which I skimmed, is the bad news.  There is an
implication that terrorism can be defeated strictly by amassing the proper
arsenal.  I think that grossly underestimates the enemy, ignores the lessons
of the Vietnam war, and ignores the issues of the root causes of the
problem.


It appears, at least to me, that we are facing an enemy that is far more
passionate about their cause than the Viet Cong, and who are willing to
sacrifice themselves like the kamikaze of WW II.  And who may be able to get
their hands on nuclear or bio-chemical weapons of mass destruction.


I think it is correct to view the world as a collection of countries, which
either support us or don't.  (But at the same time, the world is a
collection of peoples, within those countries, which support different forms
of terrorism to varying degrees.)

I think it is appropriate to be planning a Gulf-style war against these
countries.  Hopefully an even more precise war, with fewer Allied and
civilian deaths.  However, each new martyr that is created will just further
embolden the enemy.

And I question, if this is the sole military approach, whether it could
possibly be successful against that many countries and against dedicated
guerilla warfare, in any kind of reasonable time-frame.  In view of the
risks, I would go so far as to say I think it is wildly optimistic (i.e.
mighty risky) to think/hope that terrorism could be defeated, if this is the
sole military approach taken and/or the root causes of the problem are not
addressed.


jt







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Subject: America's Friends & Enemies


a friend of mine wrote:

> You might find this of interest.
>
>  http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4321512

I sure did.

The graphic is very readable, showing which nations support the people who
attacked America, and which nations are our friends.  I am wondering how
accurate that map is.  Then the article describes America's military
arsenal.

Then I clicked on some other articles on this British newspaper site,
including the column by Henry Kissinger, the list of all the other nations
that had people in the World Trade Center, various actions by Britain in
support of the USA, and this chilling story of what all Bin Laden
organization is up to:

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/nowcontent/

The article is called "Atrocity Planned Eight Years Ago"
It is in the section "Week that Changed the World"

This article details:
the Bin Laden car bombing of WTC in 1993;
the Bin Laden plan to simultaneously hijack and destroy 11 US airliners;
the Bin Laden plan to assassinate The Pope;
the Bin Laden plan to assassinate The President of the USA;
progress Bin Laden making to get weapons of mass destruction, such as
nuclear
weapons, biological agents to get everyone who uses the same water supply,
or
airborne agents, for use in future terrorist attacks against some
unsuspecting city;
Britissh intelligence sources say that members of Bin Laden's organization
operating from Albania have obtained phials of Anthrax and Botulism from a
laboratory in the Czech Republic;
Bin Laden's alliance with Iraq's Saddam Hussein;
his army of 5,000 devoted followers;
his multi billion dollar fortune from being a key player in the Afghanistan
heroine trade;
what he is doing on the Internet;
his biographical details;
his published Fatwa against Americans - young Moslem men were told by Bin
Laden that if they died for Fatwa, they would go straight to paradise and
have an exclusive harem of 70 virgins for their pleasure;

Even if Bin Laden & his organization is not responsible for the latest
attrocity, these anti-USA terrorists need to be removed from their power to
deliver terror to the world.

Also to reiterate what has been said in other threads,
if we are to solve international terrorism, it cannot be a purely military
solution
in which the ashes of killing off one bunch of enemies leaves in its wake
friends & relatives & like thinkers whose decendants vow revenge in a
continuing war
Violence begets violence.
Many places are breeding grounds for future generations of social outcasts.
There are many casualities of the Cold War.
There must be a reassessment of the victims of history,
What it is that helps a nation rise out of barbarism to becoming a great
civilization that honors the human dignity of all of its people, then work
on
getting the whole world that way, so we can truely put the motivation for
terrorism into the history books & remove that pandora's box from our
current
reality

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

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